Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.
We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.
The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.