Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

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.