He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.