He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

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

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.