Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.
The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?
Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.
Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages