In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.