The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.