Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

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.

Mirth is God's medicine.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.