History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.