There is more done with pens than with swords.

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

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.

Rome is an astonishment!

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.