“ The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ”

“ A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be. ”

“ No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. ”

“ Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. ”

“ It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? ”

“ Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. ”

“ He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. ”

“ If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. ”

“ We do not remember days, we remember moments. ”