Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.