Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.