Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.