Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.