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

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

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

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

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.

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