Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.