It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)