One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

"Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea".

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.

Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told us.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.