Yet, O thou beautiful rose! Queen rose so fair and sweet. What were lover or crown to thee, without the clay at thy feet?

Buttercups, bright eyed and bold, hold their chalices of gold to catch the sunshine and the dew.

And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.

April's rare capricious loveliness.

Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.

Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!

Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.

No mother who stands upon low ground herself can hope to place her children upon a loftier plane. They may reach it, but it will not be through her.

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

Every morning we begin our new life with new joy. So let it be beautiful.

The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

The accumulation of capital involves the expansion of value over time.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally