All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

One should not run on a new road.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.