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

The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, ….

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

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..

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