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.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

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.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.