The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

Grief alone can teach us what is man.

Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!

In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.