Life's objective is life itself.

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.