All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.