The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.
No human creature can give orders to love.
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.