Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

One errs as long as one strives.

We have time enough if we but use it aright