To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.