One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.