It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?