"Happiness is like one of those palaces on an enchanted island, its gates guarded by dragons. One must fight to gain it."

"Happiness is like a ball; we run after it while it is rolling, and we kick it when it stops."

"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more."

"Time, which encrusts all physical substances with its mossy mantle, as it deposits all moral phenomena with its mantle of forgetfulness."

"I prefer to be a devil in a city than an angel in a desert."