Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.