All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

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

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!