Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.