All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.

But, God knows best, I concluded.