Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
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.
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
