A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.
Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
To be active is the primary vocation of man.
The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.