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.

We are rich only through what we give.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

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

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

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.