We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Human life must be some form of mistake.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

One should use common words to say uncommon things