You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.