It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language; and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.