We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.
Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.
Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.
We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.