One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.

There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.

There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.

Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.