Let us be merciful as well as just.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

Resolve and thou art free.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.