In women everything is heart, even the head.
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
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.
Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.
Humankind’s chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
The Infinate has sowed His name in the heavens in burning stars, but on earth He has sowed His name in tender flowers.
Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.
Love lessens woman’s delicacy and increases man’s.
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, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.