Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.
Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
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.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
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.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
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...
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.
Live your life and forget your age.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
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