Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.

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.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven.

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

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?

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.