Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.
I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.