The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
The mind's direction is more important than its progress.