I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.