He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

Faith is the force of life.

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.