Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Time is that in which all things pass away.

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