Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

On every parable you ride to every truth.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.