The world is a place of the living, and the dead have no place in it. The dead are nothing.

Sometimes, I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.

It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

【释义】百姓虽然弱小，但不能被战胜；虽然愚昧，但不能被欺骗。