"If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."

"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others."

"The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself."

"Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."

"He who multiplies riches multiplies cares."

"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish."

"Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again."

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

"Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow."