Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

A little time separates us from those who depart - a time of tears, a time of sadness and solitude; but, that over, we go to rejoin them and to enjoy with them the society of the blessed. Oh, how sweetly the heart rests in this immortal hope!