The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.