The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.
In women everything is heart, even the head.
The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.
People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.