“The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception.” Book IV
The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. Following the Equator
The gentleman lolling back in the chaise was neither dashingly handsome nor yet unbearably ugly, neither too stout nor yet too thin; it could not be claimed he was old but he was no stripling, either. His arrival in the town created no stir and was not marked by anything out of the ordinary. Dead Souls
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. Sand and Foam
Quotes