No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

Good-humor makes all things tolerable

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.