"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."

"I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this."

"Don't forget to love yourself."

"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."

"Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."

"If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death."

"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."

"To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!"