This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.