When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.