Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth; but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursing out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus.

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.