...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

Scoundrels are always sociable.

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.

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

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.