Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.

When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.

Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.

Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!