Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.