I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.
It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.
If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.
All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.
One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.
In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion for theological discussion which I had inherited from my father himself-all of which my father thought I had better rid myself of before I married.