Advice is always a confession.

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.