The end of pain we take as happiness.

Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.