A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.