One should always be a little improbable.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.

It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.