Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.