There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points 'born' and 'died' farther away from one another... The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long a…

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a his…

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.