it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self.

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.