Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

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

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

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

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