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.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!