The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

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

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.