How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.