Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.

To know the pain of too much tenderness

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.

There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.