Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.

It was thy kiss Love that made me immortal.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.