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 reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

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.

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.

Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.