No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.