The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.

For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens in burning stars, but on the earth He has sowed his name in tender flowers.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

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.

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.