Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
"If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee." And then he got up, and said: "And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it." So he began to climb the tree.
"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."
"It's a little Anxious," he said to himself, "to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water."
How sweet to be a cloudFloating in the blue.