Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.