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.

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.

Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.