Fine minds are seldom fine souls.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.