Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

To have and to want more that is life.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.