Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.