If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.