Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.

Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.