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.

Your little child is the only true democrat.

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.

That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

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.