:the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

I have not been afraid of excess: excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

:we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. : They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.