"He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism."

"A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."

"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

"I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination."

"Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports."