Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.

We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

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