No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.

Silence sweeter is than speech.