With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.