"The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water."
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
"Too much sanity may be madness, and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."
"He who’s down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is."
"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."
"There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it."
"The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away."