It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope..

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest..

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual..

A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold..

The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, em….

Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite..

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it..

Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we….

The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen..

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted..

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around….

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him..

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward..

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time..

Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned ….

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven..

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another..

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them..

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers..

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression..

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us..