Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.