The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose, And flirted around all day; While round him in turn with her golden caress, Soft fluttered the sun's warm ray.... I know not with whom the rose was in love, But I know that I loved them all. The butterfly, rose, and the sun's bright ray, The star and the bird's sweet call.

The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.