Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

No one can transcend their own individuality.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.