It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.