A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.