A good time for laughing is when you can.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.