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

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

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

I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The storms of ruthless dispensation Have struck my flowery garland numb, I live in lonely desolation And wonder when my end will come. Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted By tardy winter's whistling chill, A single leaf which has outlasted Its season will be trembling still.

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

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

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.