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.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

Where there are no women there are no good manners

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

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

Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star