Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.