If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Patience and gentleness is power.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

Our true mentor in life is science.

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.

Worship does not become worship until it changes the way we live