Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

When we have got it, we want something else.

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.