Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying

The price of ability does not depend on merit, but on supply and demand.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.