In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.