Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

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.

We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.

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

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.