Age, Courage, Death, Life, Sad, Time, Wisdom, Birthday, Change, Forgiveness, God, Good, Great, Health, Inspirational, Morning, Music, Nature, Strength, Sympathy

Quote	Tags	Rank
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.	Birthday, Time	101
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.	Wisdom	102
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.	God	103
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.	Music	104
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.	Life, Time	105
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.		106
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.	Age, Sad	107
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.	Courage	108
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.		109
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.	Inspirational	110
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.	Health	111
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.		112
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.		113
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.		114
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.	Change, Wisdom	115
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.	Forgiveness	116
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.		117
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.		118
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.		119
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.	Sad	120
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?		121
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.	Death	122
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.	Nature	123
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.	Courage	124
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.	Age	125
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 look straighter as we approach the end.	Life, Morning	126
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.	Death	201
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.		202
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.		203
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.	Sympathy	204
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.		205
Live your life and forget your age.		206
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.		207
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.		208
Age does not matter if the matter does not age.		209
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.	Strength	210
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.		211
Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.		212
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.		213
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.		214
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.	Good	215
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.		216
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.		217
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.		218
Weaklings must lie.		219
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.	Great	220
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.		221
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.		222
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.		223
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.		224

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