Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.

Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,--very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.