It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.