“I affirm, and would maintain, that true religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the supreme being”

“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”

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

“The man who dies rich dies disgraced”