1. “The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.”
2. “A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.”
3. “It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.”
4. “Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.”
5. “Remembrance last longer then present realities.”
6. “Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.”
7. “A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.”
8. “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.”
9. “Despair is the only genuine atheism.”
10. “You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth
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11. “Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.”
12. “A scholar knows no boredom.”
13. “Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.”
14. “Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
15. “The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.”
16. “Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.”
17. “Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.”
18. “Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.”
19. “A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.”
20. “Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.”
21. “Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.”
22. “What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.”
23. “Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.”
24. “In women everything is heart, even the head.”
25. “Love lessens woman’s delicacy and increases man’s.”
26. “Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”
27. “Paradise is always where love dwells.”
28. “The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.”
29. “Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.”
30. “Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.”
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