The living have never shown me how to live.
Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.