Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.

In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."