Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

The gift without the giver is rare.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.