My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes each day to seek out a lovely flower or cloud or star, or learn a verse to brighten another’s dull task. What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchanges of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.