We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding