When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.