1. “A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.”
2. “A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
3. “Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.”
4. "A scholar knows no boredom."
5. “A scholar knows no ennui.”
6. "A timid person is frightened before a danger; a coward during the time; and a courageous person afterward."
7. "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 combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom."
8. “Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.”
9. "Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him."
10. “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.”
11. “I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the pump of unbelief; in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.”
12. "Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm." ‘
13. “Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.”
14. “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.”
15. “Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell; like the glaciers, which are transparent and rosy-hued only at sunrise and sunset, but throughout the day are gray and cold.”
16. "Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest."
17. “Music is the poetry of the air.”
18. “Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.”
19. “Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.”
20. "Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out."
21. ”Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.”
22. "The dream is an involuntary kind of poetry."
23. “The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.”
24. "The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us."
25. "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, The clearer we should see through it."
26. “The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.”
27. “Time is the chrysalis of eternity.”
28. "True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time."
29. ”Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.”
