The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.