Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.

Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.