Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

True happiness springs from moderation.

The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.