There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

If only religion could be brought to take an interest in this earthly future, what a help it would be! ... Think of the appeal to the less spiritual of us, to those who never did get enthusiastic about eternity, or care so tenderly about their own souls, yet who could rise to the thought of improving this world for the children they love, and their children after them.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

A concept is stronger than a fact.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.