Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

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

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

What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.

Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.

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

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