Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.