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.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Our foibles are really what make us lovable.