“Kind words do not 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.”
“Too much clarity darkens.”
“When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.”
“Do you want it always to cost me the blood of my humanity while you do not even shed a tear?”
“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.”