If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

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