In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.

There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.

The heart never becomes wrinkled.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.