Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

I don’t count life as life without love

It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.

The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.