“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ”
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ”
“Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.”
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long”
“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love ”
“O tell her, life is brief but love is long. ”
“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ”
“O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings. ”