"One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged."

"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."

"Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess."

"Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son metier. (God will forgive me. It's his job.)"

"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle."

"Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m'etier (God will forgive me. It's his profession)"

"Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them."

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

"Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."

"It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."

"I don't want to become immortal through my work, I want to become immortal through not dying."