It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.

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

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.