Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.