Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

Good-humor makes all things tolerable

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.