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

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.

We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.