Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.