...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.

Beauty would save the world.

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners