Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individual, or in governments.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.