Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness.

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.