“Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
“Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.”
“Do you want it always to cost me the blood of my humanity while you do not even shed a tear?”
“Too much clarity darkens.”
“When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.”
“Habit is a second nature thta destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.”