Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.