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

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

Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

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.

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

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.