God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

People read every thing nowadays, except books.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.