“The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.”

“Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy”

“Life is a dream walking, death is a going home”

“Life is like the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority”

“In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost”

“My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident”