Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

Small things affects small minds.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.