You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

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

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.