Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?