Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.

Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey; golden, too, the music, Where the honey-makers hummed among the trees.

You can never begin to live until you dare to die.