We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.