God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

The true artist can only labor con amore.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.