What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.