Past tears are present strength.

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.