Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

[There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but . . . early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them.

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows.

What is matter? Never mind.

Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.