"An honest man is always a child.[Lat.,..." - Quote by Socrates

“Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.”

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”

“To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .”

“A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.”

“Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.”

“We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.”

“To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.”

“I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown people who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood.”

“Hope is born again in the faces of children.”