Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay.

Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.

In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.