Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.