... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.