All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

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?