Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.
An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.
You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.
It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.