We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.