The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Mostly only loss teaches us about the value of things.
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
Life is short and truth works far and long: let us speak the truth.
Fame is something which must be won; honor is something which must not be lost.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.
Talent hits a target no-one else can hit; genius hits targets no-one else can see.
