In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth

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

Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.

The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth

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.

There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.