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.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
Man shows his character best in trifles.
Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.