“Can you learn to live? Yes, if you are not happy. There is no virtue in felicity. To endure without happiness and not to droop, not to pine, is a pursuit in itself, you might almost say a profession.”
“It is the image in the mind that binds us to our lost treasures, but it is the loss that shapes the image, gathers the flowers, weaves the garland.”
“Twenty years are not too long to shape a friendship, to ensure its present and future safety. Dear friends of twenty years and over, of ten years or less, I will not speak of you here; we like to meet in quiet places, away from the bright lights and the din. Take care of yourselves, live longer than I do. Thank you.”
“It is better not to haggle over ten years of your life … provided they are youthful years. Later it is well to be thrifty.”