It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!