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.

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.