There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

There are no rules for felicity.

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.