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

Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?

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.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.