God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.