A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.