Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.