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

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.