First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.