age is nothing but death that is conscious.
The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.
Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.
I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.