Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.