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

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

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

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

The look of a king is itself a deed.

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

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.