You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent.

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.