Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?