Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
Light is the symbol of truth.
Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.