A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

Was that life? Well then, once more!