Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.