Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.

With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.