A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.