The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.