Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.

You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking

Thinking evil is making evil.