In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

Inventors and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.