He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!