Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

Wait, and thy soul shall speak.

Life is too short to waste.