What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.