We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.