If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

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.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.