And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

Satire is the disease of art.

Remorse turns us against ourselves.

False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.