"We are all under sentence of death,..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.”

“The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.”

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”

“There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.”

“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”

“Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.”

“Stay in the game until the end of time.”

“It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.”

“Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.”