No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.