Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.

Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.