We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

A man must become wise at his own expense.