Example has far more followers than reason.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

A mother is the best friend God ever gave.

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.