Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.