The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

I am not deep, but I am very wide.

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man