There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?