Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter — that is to say, what he has thought about it.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.