To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.

Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.

Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!