When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.