Flowers, says Ruskin, seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. Children love them; quiet, tender, contented, ordinary people love them as they grow; they are the cottager’s treasure; and in the crowded town mark, as with a little broken fragment of rainbow, the windows of the workers in whose heart rests the covenant of peace.
Great privileges never go save in company with great responsibilities.
—Hamilton W. Mabie.
He who has a high standard of living and thinking will certainly do better than he who has none at all.
—Samuel Smiles.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
—Henry Drummond.
And let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
—Emerson.
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you—in a book, or a friend, or, best of all, in your own thoughts, the eternal thought speaking in your thought.