No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Contentment is better than divinations or visions.