The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

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.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!