Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

Great passions are incurable diseases.

Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.