Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

The pest of society is egotists.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.