To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
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.