Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.