"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
"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"
"A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man"
"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness."
"Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it."
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude"