“We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.”

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

It is not customary to love what one has

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.

But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.

Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

I am tired of living in a world, where I belong deeply, to anyone but myself.

A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.

But dear, even dandelions are viewed as weeds in a rose garden.

After every war someone has to tidy up.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

When the truth get’s buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found.

They said everything I lost will come back to me. I said -everything I’ve lost is too lost to ever come back to Me.