Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one

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.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.