Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

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

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.