There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.

But people will laugh at all sorts of things.

What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he’d have fallen asleep like a log, and I should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children’s and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight I should have been darning them. What’s the use of talking forgiveness! I have forgiven as it is!