"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."

"The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger."

"Paradise is always where love dwells."

"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards."

"Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger."

"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."

"We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection."

"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."

"Anger wishes all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart"

"In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's na"

"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."

"Age does not matter if the matter does not age."

"It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope"

"Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him."

"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."

"Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm."

"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."

"Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life."

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's"

"Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence."

"Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive"

"Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face"

"Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present"

"Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows."

"There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof."

"There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know."

"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul."

"Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power."

"There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go."

"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."

"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another"

"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."

"In women everything is heart, even the head"

"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."

"No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons."

"It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them."

"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."

"All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from a sling, so many turns before the final release... Only those who have not completed their perfection must suffer the wheel of rebirth by being reborn into another human body."

"Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest"

"I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more."

"Weaklings must lie."

"The look of a king is itself a deed."

"The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made."

"Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something"

"Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it."

"The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored."

"Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions."