Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.