There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.