Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!

Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.