Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbs all these incorporeal spirits, and the perfume of all these flowers.

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

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

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present