“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.”

“Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm. ”

“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”

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

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

“Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths ...”