History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.