Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.