"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."

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I've looked away and never could look people straight in the eye.