They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

The Devil deserves zero tolerance.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.