Who said “God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is…”?

“Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.”

“Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.”

“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.”

“Saintliness is also a temptation.”

“Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.”

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”

“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.”

“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic -- if it is pulled out I shall die.”

“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.”