It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.