Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
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.