Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

In women everything is heart, even the head.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.