If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.