While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.