Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.