When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!

To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.

The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.