At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

God will pardon: That's His business.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.