Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.