By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.
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.
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.