So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

The wise man is astonished by anything.

There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.