Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.