“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.”

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

Appearances have very little to do with happiness.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.

Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You’ll know.

By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

I find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven’t encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve.