He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

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