One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.
In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.
Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.