Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.
Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.
Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.
How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
For the nature of women is closely allied to art.
Blood is a very special juice.
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day; Still forward press, nor never tire! The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by the forelock grasp. Then she will ne’er let go her clasp, And labors on, because she must.
Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one’s best.
Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt. Man errs as long as he strives.