Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
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.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
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...
Live your life and forget your age.