One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

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

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.

His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.