How like an angel came I down!

You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of humans.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.