God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.
Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.
As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.
Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.