The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.

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