The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.