Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Live your life and forget your age.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

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.

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

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.