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 To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an 
interminable tedious sweetness.  
 To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an 
interminable tedious sweetness. 
 Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is 
more) the passion for making them prevail.  
 Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is 
more) the passion for making them prevail. 
Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.
Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
 The sweetest thing that ever grew
 Beside a human door.  
 The sweetest thing that ever grew
 Beside a human door. 
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks read more
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea
 The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and 
light.  
 The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and 
light. 
Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.
Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.