Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds in the distance they look black over our...
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but like...
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Like a morning dream life becomes more and more bright the longer we live...
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life the clearer we...
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew and does not patter down...
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not...
For sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed they must be interrupted.
God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else...
Death gives us sleep eternal youth and immortality.
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects...
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger but in seeing it and...
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation and gentle ones by...
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Whenever at a party I have been in the mood to study fools I have always...
Beauty attracts us men but if like an armed magnet it is pointed beside...
Live your life and forget your age.
Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
As winter strips the leaves from around us so that we may see the distant...
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
