Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.