There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.