Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."

Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.