Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop