To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.