Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.