Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

Let the black flower blossom as it may!

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.

My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.