Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.