The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.