“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ”

“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ”

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives”

“A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time”

“Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.”

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ”