Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

Necessity has the face of a dog.

Cease, cows, life is short.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.