It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.