All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.