Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

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

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.