Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.

As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.

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