There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.