Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.

I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

The sun cares nothing for illumination.

As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.