Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.