The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.
Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
You should not honor men more than truth.
At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.
You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.