Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.