It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.