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When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the color petals out of a fruitful flower; when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate, all their emotions are steady, deep, perpetual and vivifying to the soul as is the natural pulse to the body.
--John Ruskin

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one,
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one,
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When its love is done.
--Francis W. Bourdillon

Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain.

Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you have gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths-not until then can you know what love is.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure; the long nights you have devoted to work.

Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch.
--Max O'Rell

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour beforehand.
--Lord Nelson