If you want to be happy, be.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it