"In morality, I prefer Confucius to the ten Commandments and Socrates to St. Paul."

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

"The 'good old times' – all times when old are good."

"What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; present bliss is all we know."

"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."