“Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day”

“My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it”

“Pain is life, the sharper, the more evidence of life”

“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam”

“I wish to beleave in immortality, I wish to live with you forever.”

“I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me”