"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

"Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart."

"God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head."

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."

"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear."

"The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home."