All understanding begins in wonder!

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.