Paradise is always where love dwells.
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
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.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
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 man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.
The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.
Despair is the only genuine atheism.