“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.”

“Art is the objectification of feeling.”

“Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.”

“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”

“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”