We do not judge the people we love.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Age doesn’t matter, unless your cheese.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Remembrances last longer than present realities.
Repetition is the mother of education.
It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
The German language is the organ among the languages.
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.
A sky full of silent suns.
For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.
Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.
People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
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 stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages.
Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.