 Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. |
| Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. |
| Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself. |
| The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously. |
| The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. |
| When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. |
| Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. |
| He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. |
| All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it. |
| Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. |
| The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. |
| Space is the stature of God. |
| Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. |
| Politeness is the flower of humanity. |
| The passions of the young are vices in the old. |
| Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. |
| One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. |
| Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. |
| The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. |
| Innocence is always unsuspicious. |
