O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

To the fool-king belongs the world.

Obedience decks the Christian most.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.