Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

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

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.