We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

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.

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.