"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

"Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself."

"God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head."

"If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both."

"The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning."