"Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered."

"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight."

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

"That which does not make a man worse, does not make his life worse."