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.
TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.