The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.