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The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

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

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

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

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

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

A sky full of silent suns.

Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Repetition is the mother of education.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.

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

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.

The Infinate has sowed His name in the heavens in burning stars, but on earth He has sowed His name in tender flowers.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

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.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.

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

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

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

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

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.

The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.

In women everything is heart, even the head.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

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

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

The German language is the organ among the languages.

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

Feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Remembrances last longer than present realities.

It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.