“Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more”

“There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude”

“The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.”

“It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men”

“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live”

“Hunger makes a thief of any man”