In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.

Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.