'Have patience, messieurs! The age of miracles is not yet past.'

'True valor is to do in secrecy that which you could just as easily do before others.'

'Everyone can master grief but he that has it.'

'Fear nothing; you are under the protection of a man who would be only too happy to lay down his life for you.'

'Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.'

'Let others engage in plots and quarrels. The real philosopher smiles, and watches the world go by.'

'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'

'We never value joy when it is here, but when it is past.'

'We are very apt to believe what we wish.'

'There are two things that grow scarce with years — friends and hair.'

'A world without friends would be a sunless world.'

'There is no truer path to love than through reverence.'

Twenty Years After