If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.