1. “Trees are your best antiques.”
2. “The sea complains upon a thousand shores.”
3. “Death takes away the common place of life.”
4. “The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.”
5. “A great man is the man who does something for the first time.”
6. “We can never be happy; we can only remember that we were so once.”
7. “If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.”
8. “Everything is sweetened by risk.”
9. “Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”
10. “A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.”
11. “Books are a finer world within the world.”
12. “A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.”
13. “Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.”
14. “Every man’s road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.”
15. “A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants for posterity.”
