“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed”

“Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us”

“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”

“Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.”

“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty”

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul”