“Being prepared means much, being able to wait means more, but to make use of the right moment means everything
“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity