A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.