You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.

He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.