Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

By seeking and blundering we learn.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.