There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile creatures, you in the image of the beast and you who bear his mark. All the same, you come too!' And the wise and prudent will say, 'Lord, why are you welcoming them? And he will say, 'O wise and prudent, I am welcoming them because not one of them has ever judged himself worthy. And he will stretch out his arms to us, and we shall fall at his feet, and burst into sobs, and then we shall understand everything, everything! Lord, your kingdom come!

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.