What I value most next to eternity is time.

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

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

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

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.