It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?