It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.