Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

We forgive just so long as we love.

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.