People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.