Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.