A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

In any adversity gold can find friends.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.