They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.