“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age”
“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age”
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long”
“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine”
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions ”
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives”
“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ”
“O tell her, life is brief but love is long. ”