It does the heart good to look at you.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.