Humanity is outraged in me and with me.

You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!