When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime