Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.