A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

One must make one's own mistakes

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.