The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven..

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another..

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward..

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them..

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers..

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression..

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us..

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth..

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life..

Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's..

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life..

Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese..

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs..

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time..

A scholar knows no boredom..

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence..

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around….

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him..

Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned ….

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted..