Another occupation might have been better.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.