Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last
If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.
Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.
Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.
Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.
Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
