To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.