But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.