What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.