Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.