TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.