"What is more cheerful than an open wood fire ...."

“What is more cheerful than an open wood fire?  Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood?  Those are the ghosts of the robins and blackbirds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last spring.”

"God gives every bird his worm ...."

"God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest."

"Where hearts are true, ..."

"Where hearts are true, few words will do."

"Faith is the bird ...."

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."

... I'm fuzzy and you're by my side

I don’t care if I’m belly-up, I’m fuzzy and you’re by my side.

"... and the woods would be very silent ...."

“... the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”

"There is so much good ...."

There is so much good in the worst of us,

And so much bad in the best of us,

That it hardly becomes any of us

To talk about the rest of us.

Edward Hoch