..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.

I am crazy about mysterious things.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.