'Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal - there's the trick!'

`Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, tha…

'I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe tha…

'Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out!'

This Life is a fleeting breath, And whither and how shall I go, When I wander away with Death By a path that I do not know?

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

I am. I was. I am not. I never am.