The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.