What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of "indifferent" nature: they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.