All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.