Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.
True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.
Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!
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.
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.