Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.