One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.