If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

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.

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.