"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness…"

"Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found."

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

"The human heart is a strange thing. It is capable of the greatest love and the greatest hatred."

"The greatest pleasure of life is love."