It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.

Feeling loves a subdued light.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.