Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Repetition is the mother of education.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German, just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went to John Paul himself. The author's reply was very characteristic: "My good friend, when I wrote that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally forgotten."