A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness, and it guides - by - precepts - backed by the full force of its authority.

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.