Self trust is the essence of heroism.

The soul circumscribes all things.

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

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.