If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

My body and my will are one.