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.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.