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!

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

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

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.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.