Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.