Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But, if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And, if it is round, will the King's command flatten it?

I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?