After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

Don't use big words. They mean so little.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.