We can’t reach old age by another man’s road.
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand