Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

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

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.

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.