"The highest degree of world-weariness is when one has no longer any wish for anything."

"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."

"If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it t…"

"The world is a collection of unhappy beings."

"The character of a man is formed by what he does when he is alone."