Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.