Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.

I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.