Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.