Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand however is usually not...
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain...
Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable...
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as...
Great men are like eagles and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who...
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work a great head.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read...
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain which is the positive element of...
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at...
Every parting gives a foretaste of death every reunion a hint of the...
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth every...
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide...
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
