Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.