And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.

The world remains ever the same.

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.