Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced..

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and theref….

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. Howe….

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection..

Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the p….

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task..

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience..

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They a….

Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood..

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to m….

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality..

The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal..

Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his….

He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice ….

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possib….

When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never….

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others..

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy..

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect..

To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same tim….