Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.