Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.