But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.