"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."

"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear."

"Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others."

"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."

"A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax."

"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."

"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."

"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr."