Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.

I call architecture frozen music.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

I wait for the morning of my tears

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.