It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
