I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.

Kisses are the remnants of paradise.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.