Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.