Realists do not fear the results of their study.

It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.