There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!

I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

Half our fears are baseless the other half discreditable.

The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.

There is something more spiritual to us than what we are on this earth, but how you access it I'm not sure.

With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

Let us also go, that we might die with him