Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

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.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.