To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

The Germans, a race eager for war.

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.