Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.