Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.