He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.