He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.