“If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.”
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”
“Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.”
“We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.”
“Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.”
“Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.”
“Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.”
“Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.”
“Each day is a little life.”
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