Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

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.

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.