Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.