Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

Vision is seeing the invisible.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.