Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.