Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Manners form the great charm of women.

Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.

A joy shared is a joy doubled.