"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

“Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death.”

“At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals.”

“Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.”

“Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!”

“Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy sand ven he go to the end of the alphabet, it's a matter of taste.”

“The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.”

“To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.”

“Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.”

“India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.”