Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.