Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.