"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"