The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.