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

a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

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

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.