Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

This was getting bloody ridiculous, he thought savagely. If she became any more adorable, endearing, or delectable, something was going to get broken.Most likely his heart.

True love is a word found by a madman to make the people who believe in it go mad.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

Once you get off the ladder you'll never get back on.

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.