A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.