Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.