Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt