Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.
Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.
Life is earnest, art is gay.
Life did not present its sunny side to thee.
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.