It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.