Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.

A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.

With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.