Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.

We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality; I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?

The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.

Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.