A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.