All perishable is but an allegory.

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.

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.