A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.
May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.