People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.