Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Live your life and forget your age.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths loo...