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

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

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.

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

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

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