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

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.