The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.