Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure - Arthur Schopenhauer

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."

"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible"

"Compassion is the basis of morality."

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

"A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man"