nobody ever intends to be old.

Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only-the bird does not know how old it is-the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!