Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.