“The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.”

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

I can act. I’ve been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don’t nobody owe you nothing. You’ve go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don’t go from M to Z.

I want it all – and I would like it delivered.

All things are possible to one who believes.

You are thirst and thirst is all I know

Before GOD,no god,after him,there will be no GOD.

All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway.

Moving makes you feel all alone inside.

In the end, We’re all the same.