In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.