Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.