In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

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

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

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.

The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

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