“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization”

“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent”

“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself”

“True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it”

“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter, often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter, in the eye”

“Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!”