The last act crowns the play.

Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

Work first, and then rest.

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.