Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.