“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones”

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration”

“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind”

“Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame”

“The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed”

“In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike”