“I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake, for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.”

“Religion is the opium of the masses.”

“Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.”

“God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.”

“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”