A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.