A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

Love is a fault; so be it.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition