God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.