The look of a king is itself a deed.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.