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.

Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.

Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.