A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

The world remains ever the same.

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.