Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

Where words cease, there music begins.

High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars... high over the stars sweep the angels.

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.