"The more he became truly wise, the..." - Quote by Voltaire

“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”

“The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.”

“The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.”

“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.”

“True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.”

“The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”

“We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.”

“If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.”

“When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.”