What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.