Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

We're asleep until we love.

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

Energy is based on love.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Life is fragile and absurd.

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.