Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.

Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer.

No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby.

Art is Nature made by Man, To Man the interpreter of God.

Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love.