Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

God made the water but men made the wine.

Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.