Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Nice work if you can get it, And you can get it if you try.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a little bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.

Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much.

We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives.

The dawn of ideas goes on, forming each successive stage of progress.

How would civilization have advanced if the thinker and discoverer, the philosopher and artisan had kept silent?

The human heart, like a feather bed, needs often to be stirred, sometimes roughly, and given a variety of turns, else it grows hard and uncomfortable whereon to repose.

When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.

Oh, may the love that is talked be felt! and so lived.

We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.

To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; to wait on Divine Love; to write [draw] on the tablet of one's own heart. This is the perfection of living, and my human ideal.

Mortals can never understand God's creation while believing that man is a creator.

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

Human affection is not poured forth vainly, even though it meet no return. Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.

The world would collapse without Mind, without the intelligence which holds the winds in its grasp.

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections.

My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord.

For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy.

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time.