Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

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

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

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.