Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

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

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.