... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from behind. All men know of death, but they do not expect it of a sudden, and it comes upon them unawares. So, though the dry flats extend far out, soon the tide comes and floods the beach.