Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

Beware of men bearing flowers.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

Beware the ire of the calm.

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.