"What does it mean to be a philosopher? It means to be able to say, 'I have seen the world, and I have found it good.'"

"Hardly a man takes a half-hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, 'What's the news?' as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. Some give him the news as if t…"

"The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right."

"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."

"The very best thing, of course, is to have a good laugh. But if you can't have that, a good cry is not bad either."