A small unkindness is a great offence.

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.