Gratitude is a twofold love / love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he haith not seen shall bless him.

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with

When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be.

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.

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; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.