The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.