Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

To make something you have to be something.