If he carries a happy heart all day?”
A man is specially and divinely fortunate, not when his conditions are easy, but when they evoke the very best that is in him; when they provoke him to nobleness, and sting him to strength, when they clear his vision, kindle his enthusiasm and inspire his will.
—Hamilton Wright Mabie.
The deeper the feeling the less demonstrative will be the expression of it.
—Balzac.
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. If he knows I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
—H. D. Thoreau.
“Live blameless; God is near.”
—Inscribed over the door of the house of Linnæus, at Hammerby, Sweden.
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.