There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

A scholar knows no boredom.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

Repetition is the mother of education.

In women everything is heart, even the head.

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.