To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people read more

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit.

Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths read more

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?.

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?.

One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a read more

One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.