Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good..

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof..

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

A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold..

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life..

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power..

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something..

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often….

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, ….

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm..

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something..

Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies..

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

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

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it..

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

Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite..

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

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….

In women everything is heart, even the head..

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