Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.
What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.