“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

“My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.”

“To deny temporal succession, to deny the self, to deny the astronomical universe, are measures of apparent despair and of secret consolation. Our destiny (in contrast to Swedenborg's hell an...”

“Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were alre...”

“He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.”