"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and a…"

"If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him, for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more energetically, and is unmasked."

"The world is a hospital for incurables."

"The only way to escape the suffering of life is to kill oneself."