Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

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