Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

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.

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.

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.