There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.