What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

There is no wealth but love.

There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.