A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.