A hedge between keeps friendship green.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.