Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."