Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.