Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.

What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.