Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.