It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

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

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

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

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.