If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.