It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

A good death does honour to a whole life.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but I would be lying if I did.

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.