If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

Decades before I valued myself enough to be careful for myself, I was careful so that my mother would not worry.

I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself not the life others expected of me.

I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.

People would do better, if they knew better.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me

<i>I</i> care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

If I had known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.

If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.

Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.