And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.