The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.

A single soul is richer than all the worlds.

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.