I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.
I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
A teacher affects eternity; He can never tell where his influence stops.
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.
There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an