Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

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

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.

Newspapers are the second hand of history.