Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

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

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.