It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.

Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.