A sky full of silent suns.

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

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of the heart's existence is in this calm equable light, even although it be only moonshine or twilight. Now the mind alone can obtain for us this heavenly cheerfulness and peace.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

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.