If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.