There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.

Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.