Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

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 never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.