The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.

You cannot have what you do not want.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.