The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

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

Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.

Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.