Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Come my little one, and give me your hand.