What is fruitful alone is true.

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

He who cannot love must learn to flatter.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.