The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

Misery travels free through the whole world!

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

His saying was: live and let live.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?