It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.