Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.

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

I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.