Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

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.

No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.