Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.