“Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.”

“Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.”

“Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.”

“Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.”

“So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.”

“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”

“Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial.”

“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”

“There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.”