I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better--cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better?
We have an infinite supply of information and yet we cannot read.
I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.
The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.
Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owi...
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.
I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot fo...