Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

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.

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.