"Neither for music, nor for poetry, nor for fine art have they any real or true sense and susceptibility, and it is mere mockery on their part, in their desire to please, if they affect any such thing."

"The only truly happy beings are those who have never been born."

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and a…"

"The world is a spectacle for the gods."

"The greatest happiness for man is to escape the necessity of being born."