What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.