It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"

It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

Money is coined liberty.

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.

On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.