Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.