Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.

It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.

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

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

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.