Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.