If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.

I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.

all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it.

one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night above As I fear the friends below.

I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much.