Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

He who leaves the game wins it.

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.