I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

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.

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.