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!

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.