Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

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 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.

The egotism of woman is always for two.

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