Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.
Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.
Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.
It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth