The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us.

Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.

Music is the language spoken by angels.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.