When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.