“Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.”

“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”

“What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.”

“Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?”

“They say: 'If a man knew himself,he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind,he would know something of himself.”

“If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.”