If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.