What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

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.

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.

Some people are proud of their humility.