Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.