"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.

For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.

--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.