“To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life”

“I am not the least afraid to die”

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it”

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die”

“If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter”

“God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages”