The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.