Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.