The German language is the organ among the languages.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.

The German language is the organ among the languages.

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

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.