Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.

the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.