Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

No one can transcend their own individuality.

Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.