The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.