Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

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.

He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.