To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.

Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.